Eddie Izzard Bio | Wiki
Eddie Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor, and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime.
Eddie’s stand-up comedy tours have included Live at the Ambassadors, Definite Article, Glorious, and Dress to Kill among others. She starred in the 2007 television series The Riches and has appeared in numerous films including Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen, Shadow of the Vampire, The Cat’s Meow, and Valkyrie.
Eddie Izzard Age
Eddie was born on February 7, 1962, in Aden, Yemen. She is 60 years old.
Eddie Izzard Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.7 m).
Eddie Izzard Family
She was born in Aden to her English parents Dorothy Ella Izzard and Harold John Michael Izzard. Her surname is of French Huguenot origin. Eddie’s mother was a midwife and nurse, while her father was an accountant who was working in Aden for British Petroleum at the time of her birth.
She has a brother named Mark. When Eddie was a year old, the family moved to Northern Ireland and settled in Bangor, where they lived until she was five. The family then moved to Wales, where they lived in Skewen. Sadly, when she was six, her mother died of cancer.
Eddie Izzard Married | Gender
Eddie is genderfluid and calls herself “somewhat boyish and somewhat girl-ish”. She uses the word “transgender,” as an umbrella term. When asked in 2019 what pronouns she preferred, Eddie responded, “either ‘he’ or ‘she'” and explained, “If I am in boy mode, then ‘he’, or girl mode, ‘she'”.
In 2020, she requested “she/her” pronouns for an appearance on the TV show Portrait Artist of the Year and said she wants “to be based in girl mode from that day. Eddie has expressed a personal conviction that being transgender is caused by genetics and that, someday, this will be scientifically proven. She, in preparation for that day, has had her own genome sequenced.
Eddie Izzard Education
She and her brother Mark built a model railway to occupy their time while their mother was ill, which was later donated to Bexhill Museum in 2016. Following her death, Eddie attended the independent St John’s School in Newton, St Bede’s Prep School in Eastbourne, and Eastbourne College. She studied drama at the University of Sheffield.
Eddie Izzard Dress To Kill
Her stand-up comedy tours have included Dress to Kill in 1998. Eddie won two Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program and Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program, while the special was nominated for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special.
Eddie Izzard Marathons
In 2009, Eddie completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief despite having no history of long-distance running. In 2016, she ran 27 marathons in 27 days in South Africa in honor of Nelson Mandela, raising £1.35 million. She raised more than £1.35M for Sport Relief. A BBC documentary detailing the feat was broadcast on 28 March.
On December 8, 2020, Eddie announced that she would attempt to run 31 marathons, and perform 31 stand-up gigs, in the 31 days of January 2021 to raise money for a range of charities including Fareshare, Walking With The Wounded, Care International, United to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Covenant House. The series of marathons raised in excess of £275,000.
Eddie Izzard Wunderbar
Her stand-up comedy tours have included Live at the Ambassadors (1993), Definite Article (1996), Glorious (1997), Dress to Kill (1998), Circle (2000), Stripped (2009), Force Majeure (2013) and, most recently, Wunderbar (2022).
Eddie Izzard Valkyrie
Eddie has appeared in numerous films, starting with 1996’s The Secret Agent. She has appeared as several real-life individuals, including Charlie Chaplin in The Cat’s Meow, actor Gustav von Wangenheim in Shadow of the Vampire, General Erich Fellgiebel in Valkyrie, and wartime pioneer of radar Robert Watson-Watt in the BBC drama film Castles in the Sky.
Eddie Izzard Stand Up
She began to toy with comedy while at university with her friend Rob Ballard. Eddie says that she developed her comedic voice by talking to the audience while doing solo escape acts. She then moved her act to the stand-up comedy venues in Britain, performing her routine for the first time at the Banana Cabaret in London’s Balham area.
In 1987, Eddie made her first stage appearance at the Comedy Store in London. In addition to her native English, she regularly performs stand-up in Arabic, French, German, Russian, and Spanish, and is an active supporter of Europeanism and the European Union.
Eddie Izzard Hannibal
Eddie played Dr. Hatteras, a skeptical psychology professor, in the Showtime series the United States of Tara. She also appeared in six episodes of the 2013–15 American psychological horror television series Hannibal as Dr. Abel Gideon. She appeared in the television series The Lost Symbol based on Dan Brown’s 2009 novel of the same name in 2021.
Eddie Izzard Flag
She ran from London to Cardiff to Belfast to Edinburgh and back to London, carrying the flag of the country—England, Scotland, or Wales—in which she was running. In Northern Ireland, she carried a self-designed green flag bearing a white dove.
Eddie Izzard Across The Universe
Her roles have included Mr. Kite in Across the Universe, Lussurioso in Revengers Tragedy, and criminal expert Roman Nagel in Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen. Eddie’s voice work has included the titular “It” in Five Children and It, Nigel in The Wild, and the mouse warrior Reepicheep in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
She declined to reprise the role of Reepicheep, a role understudied by Simon Pegg in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. She has stated that she felt she learned to act while working on the film Circus.
Eddie Izzard Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Eddie’s estimated net worth is $20 million.
Who Is Eddie Izzard
Eddie is an English stand-up comedian, actor, and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime.